morespecialeditions's Book Journey

If you’ve ever wanted to read a book that makes you feel like you just listened to a Noah Kahan song? Well, this was me at more than one point in this reading experience.

You know, you start off with fun and joy and whimsy despite the slightly ominous feeling, and then somewhere along the way you end up with an utter gut punch of emotion, a part of your soul stripped bare? Well, have I got the book for you. It's not all sad; it's just a soulful kind of contemplation wrapped in beautiful prose and clever little telegrams that will haunt you forever.

And the bits of the book I would normally criticise: the confusion about where this was (E.g., presumably not England), the reasons for the relationships developing the way they did… I think it all served a purpose. Chapter 10 literally made me put down the book for a whole minute to process. Maybe we're all just chess pieces in someone's story - you won't know until after your death just how it might affect the world around you.